By Andrew Macdonald While the Holiday food fare for many of the readership consists of turkey - and lots of it - and don’t mention the leftovers, and others enjoy seafood or fish chowder, and more prefer a Boxing day ham, this is a story of the origins of an Italian...
Pasta Primavera’s Yarmouth Creation
Recapping The Yarmouth Pasta Primavera Chronicles – We Can All Use Some Fun News In A Challenging Year
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Pasta Primavera, Part II: Invented In A Yarmouth Kitchen In 1975, Links To Original NY Times Recipe & NYC Chef’s Son On Meal’s Creation
By Andrew Macdonald Part II: Pasta Primavera’s Yarmouth Invention, The Original 1975 Recipe & Son Of NYC Chef Creator On The Creation As The Notebook reported in our news scoop, in the Saturday edition, a mansion on an island known as Robert’s Island, connected by...
Pasta Primavera, Part III: Interior Designer Rates The Yarmouth Kitchen Where Pasta Primavera Was Invented In 1975
Editor's Note: It is among the strangest historical facts in Nova Scotia. As I reported in a news scoop last weekend, the 'Italian' staple, pasta primavera, is not Italian but was created in the kitchen of a Yarmouth mansion in 1975. The owner of the stone mansion on...
Pasta Primavera Part IV: Yarmouth Mansion Owner In 1975 Tired Of Four Days Eating Wild Boar So Visiting NY City Chefs Invented ‘Italian’ Dish
By Andrew Macdonald Pasta Primavera - Yet Again: Part IV: Visiting New York Times Archives - How the ‘Italian’ Dish Was Actually Invented In A Yarmouth Mansion Kitchen In 1975, an Italian baron living on an island off of Yarmouth tired of four days in a row of eating...
We Get Mail: Jim David On Pasta Primavera & Hodge Podge
Despite an obsessive compulsive take on the Pasta Primavera Yarmouth Mansion - not to belittle that disorder, but my shrink once asked if I might have that illness - we know at least one of my readers has been reading the Pasta Primavera stories - now counting at five...
Here We Go Again: Pasta Primavera’s Yarmouth Creation (Part V): How A $7.9 Million Mansion On Yarmouth Island Was Financed – Where The Money Came From
By Andrew Macdonald Pasta Primavera’s Yarmouth Creation: Where The Money Came From To Build $7.9M Mansion On Yarmouth Island Here we go again, yet another story on how Italian dish is not Italian, it has Yarmouth origins -(Not another story on pasta primavera, you...
Pasta Primavera’s Original 1975 NY City’s Le Cirque Recipe As Reported By New York Times
This is the NY Times recipe, inspired in Yarmouth in 1975, and reported for the first time in 1977 by The New York Times. It was published in The Times on 2 October 1977, "Spaghetti With A French Accent," by Craig Claiborne and Pierre Franey, pg SM20:19 Le Cirque's...
Oh My!: The Notebook’s Pasta Primavera Chronicles: (Part VI): Yarmouth Created Italian Dish In 1975 Was The Talk Of Manhattan – The NY Times Reported In 1977
By Andrew Macdonald The Pasta Primavera Chronicles As Told By The Notebook Having fun on the job - If your work is not fun, well, one might want to pack it in. As you can tell, we are having a ton of fun on how an island resident off of Yarmouth served as the central...
The Notebook’s Pasta Primavera Chronicles: How We Scooped The NY Times On Their Own Reporting – Not Bad Journalism Work, eh? (Being Modest, Of Course)
By Andrew Macdonald The Notebook’s Pasta Primavera Chronicles - Not Bad Work When You Can Scoop The Greatest Paper On The Planet - How We Scooped The New York Times On Their Own Reporting On July 17th, 2020, a series of text messages appeared on my phone - it was a...
Exclusive: Italian Baron Selling $7.9M Mansion On A Yarmouth Island Where Pasta Primavera Was Invented In 1975
By Andrew Macdonald An Italian baron has put up for sale a mansion property on Roberts Island, in Yarmouth County. The asking price is $7.890 million. It sits on 270-acres. It has been listed on the MLS system by that town’s The Real Estate Store, where Mike Randall...
